Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul featured 14 events in total, for men and women, held on the Han River Regatta Course.[1]

Main article: Rowing at the Summer Olympics

Rowing at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Han River Regatta Course
Date	19–25 September
No. of events	14
Competitors	593 (399 men, 194 women) from 38 nations

The women's quadruple sculls event was held without coxswain for the first time at this Olympics (from 1976 through 1984 it was coxed for women and coxless for men).[2]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls (1x)[2][3]	Thomas Lange  East Germany 6:49.86	Peter-Michael Kolbe  West Germany 6:54.77	Eric Verdonk  New Zealand 6:58.66
Double sculls (2x)[2][4]	Nico Rienks and Ronald Florijn  Netherlands 6:21.13	Beat Schwerzmann and Ueli Bodenmann  Switzerland 6:22.59	Oleksandr Marchenko and Vasil Yakusha  Soviet Union 6:22.87
Quadruple sculls (4x)[2][5]	Italy (ITA) Agostino Abbagnale Davide Tizzano Gianluca Farina Piero Poli 5:53.37	Norway (NOR) Alf Hansen Rolf Thorsen Lars Bjønness Vetle Vinje 5:55.08	East Germany (GDR) Jens Köppen Steffen Zühlke Steffen Bogs Heiko Habermann 5:56.13
Coxless pair (2-)[2][6]	Andy Holmes and Steve Redgrave  Great Britain 6:36.84	Dănuț Dobre and Dragoș Neagu  Romania 6:38.06	Sadik Mujkič and Bojan Prešern  Yugoslavia 6:41.01
Coxed pair (2+)[2][7]	Italy (ITA) Carmine Abbagnale Giuseppe Abbagnale Giuseppe Di Capua (cox) 6:58.79	East Germany (GDR) Mario Streit Detlef Kirchhoff René Rensch (cox) 7:00.63	Great Britain (GBR) Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave Patrick Sweeney (cox) 7:01.95
Coxless four (4-)[2][8]	East Germany (GDR) Roland Schröder Ralf Brudel Olaf Förster Thomas Greiner 6:03.11	United States (USA) Raoul Rodriguez Thomas Bohrer Richard Kennelly David Krmpotich 6:05.53	West Germany (FRG) Guido Grabow Volker Grabow Norbert Keßlau Jörg Puttlitz 6:06.22
Coxed four (4+)[2][9]	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Niesecke Hendrik Reiher (cox) Karsten Schmeling Bernd Eichwurzel Frank Klawonn 6:10.74	Romania (ROU) Dimitrie Popescu Ioan Snep Vasile Tomoiagă Ladislau Lovrenschi (cox) Valentin Robu 6:13.58	New Zealand (NZL) Chris White Ian Wright Andrew Bird (cox) Greg Johnston George Keys 6:15.78
Eight (8+)[2][10]	West Germany (FRG) Bahne Rabe Eckhardt Schultz Ansgar Wessling Wolfgang Maennig Matthias Mellinghaus Thomas Möllenkamp Thomas Domian Armin Eichholz Manfred Klein (cox) 5:46.05	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Omelyanovich Vasily Tikhonov Andrey Vasilyev Pavlo Hurkovskiy Nikolay Komarov Veniamin But Viktor Diduk Aleksandr Dumchev Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) 5:48.01	United States (USA) Mike Teti Jonathan Smith Ted Patton Jack Rusher Peter Nordell Jeffrey McLaughlin Doug Burden John Pescatore Seth Bauer (cox) 5:48.26

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Single sculls (1x)[2][11]	Jutta Behrendt (GDR) 7:47.19	Anne Marden (USA) 7:47.19	Magdalena Georgieva (BUL) 7:53.65
Double sculls (2x)[2][12]	Birgit Peter and Martina Schröter (GDR) 7:00.48	Elisabeta Lipă and Veronica Cogeanu (ROU) 7:04.36	Violeta Ninova and Stefka Madina (BUL) 7:06.03
Quadruple sculls (4x)[2][13]	East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Förster Kristina Mundt Beate Schramm Jana Sorgers 6:21.06	Soviet Union (URS) Irina Kalimbet Svitlana Maziy Inna Frolova Antonina Zelikovich 6:23.47	Romania (ROU) Anișoara Bălan Anişoara Minea Veronica Cogeanu Elisabeta Lipă 6:23.81
Coxless pair (2-)[2][14]	Rodica Arba and Olga Homeghi (ROU) 7:28.13	Radka Stoyanova and Lalka Berberova (BUL) 7:31.95	Nikki Payne and Lynley Hannen (NZL) 7:35.68
Coxed four (4+)[2][15]	East Germany (GDR) Martina Walther Gerlinde Doberschütz Carola Hornig Birte Siech Sylvia Rose 6:56.00	China (CHN) Zhang Xianghua Hu Yadong Yang Xiao Zhou Shouying Li Ronghua 6:58.78	Romania (ROU) Marioara Trașcă Veronica Necula Herta Anitaș Doina Șnep-Bălan Ecaterina Oancia 7:01.13
Eight (8+)[2][16]	East Germany (GDR) Annegret Strauch Judith Zeidler Kathrin Haacker Ute Wild Anja Kluge Beatrix Schröer Ramona Balthasar Ute Stange Daniela Neunast 6:15.17	Romania (ROU) Doina Șnep-Bălan Veronica Necula Herta Anitaș Marioara Trașcă Adriana Bazon Mihaela Armășescu Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi Ecaterina Oancia 6:17.44	China (CHN) Zhou Xiuhua Zhang Yali He Yanwen Han Yaqin Zhang Xianghua Zhou Shouying Yang Xiao Hu Yadong Li Ronghua 6:21.83

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	8	1	1	10
2	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
3	Romania (ROU)	1	4	2	7
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
6	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	1	3
	United States (USA)	0	2	1	3
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	2	3
10	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
11	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
13	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	3	3
14	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		14	14	14	42

See also

• Rowing at the Summer Olympics
• List of Olympic medalists in rowing (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in rowing (women)
• Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics

References

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